The Lacking Details

Soulful beats in the style of old-school acid jazz, mostly instrumental.

High-order guitar instrumentals more concerned with melody and expression than pyrotechnics. Truly ear-opening.

Take the most memorable weirdness to come out of Dr. Demento’s near-50-year reign and let a bunch of punks cover them.

More from this wave of reverb-drenched noisy Swedish psychedelia that we’re enjoying lately.

Aggressive debut from this UK band features some highly dynamic songs loaded with twisty hooks.

Thile (THEE-lee) is a world-class mandolinist who also happens to have replaced Garrison Keillor as the host of that Wobegon show. Subtle and introspective.

An interesting set of covers for solo piano, performed live

Posthumous release from one of the strongest voices in modern soul.

Cross-cultural collaboration mixes up a Balkan frenzy with dope beats and MC’ing

The title and a first listen make you think this is a retro thing, but it is more of a weird synthesis from a group of Scandinavian musicians.